This pilot, hovering above a swimming pool, now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. These homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this Bird Sanctuary captured a bright flash. Staff believe it is a tree falling on a powerline. Shortly afterwards, flames can be seen in the forest. Ross hart saw something similar before his home burned down. We could hear some trees falling here and there in the distance. One big one fell here on the bridge and it knocked over the powerlines. And then you saw the house. You could see it burn . I saw it begin to burn and they wouldnt let me stay to watch it. They were dragging me out because the embers were starting to come over my truck and stuff. Questions are now being asked about whether lives might have been saved. Should mauis power grid have been turned off . Could more have been done to Sound The Alarm . For many of tho
This is so important. Now we have heard very recently that the hearing will be early next week we dont have exact details of that yet but you can see, with the Rugby World Cup so close, why world rugby will want this in some way to be resolved. Well, as sara alluded to there, there has been plenty of reaction to the decision to initially overturn the ban and then world rugby s decision to appeal. Luke griggs is Chief Executive of the british Brain Injury Charity headway and hes criticised the process. I think its been a huge embarrassment to the world rugby, and i think the way this has been handled, this is a problem with our own making. Itjust adds to the confusion about what is safe and is not safe. On the Community Level is much as anything else and thats always where our major concern is because Community Support follows what they see on the big screen sent by elite level support. This is a very, very sorry state of affairs. Well, earlier i spoke with former Wales International al
you re very welcome. tens of thousands of people are rushing to evacuate a city in canada s far north, as wildfires close in on their remote community. fires have been spreading across canada s sparsely populated northwest territories for months now, but in recent days they have started to threaten the territory s capital, yellowknife. it has a population of 20,000 located a thousand kilometres away from another large city, making the evacuation a logistical challenge. the order to leave came on wednesday night, as the fire bore down on the yellowstone s boundaries. the city has set up convoys to help drivers natigate out, as smoke blankets the only highway in or out. earlier, my colleague carl nasman spoke to ollie williams, a journalist from yellowknife who has evacuated out of harm s way. thank you forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. i understand you
making the evacuation a logistical challenge. the order to leave came on wednesday night, as the fire bore down on yellowknife s boundaries. the city has set up convoys to help drivers navigate their exit as smoke blankets the only highway in or out. earlier, my colleague carl nasman spoke to 0llie williams, a journalist from yellowknife who has already escaped harm s way. 0llie, thank you so much forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. i understand you have been able to flee these fires. just bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happened and how you are coping, where are you now? i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it probably sounds like a huge distance but it really isn t in northwest territories terms. this place is twice the size of france,